Chambre noire, archive blanche
- Publisher
- Païen
- Year
- 2025
- Specifications
- Softcover
28.5 x 20 cm
88 pages
Perfect binding
Drawn from the Eugène Trutat holdings at the Muséum d’histoire naturelle de Toulouse
An artist's book working through the heritage photographic holdings of Eugène Trutat, kept by the natural history museum in Toulouse. Trutat photographed glaciers; Élisée Reclus, writing in 1875, imagined that for the great-grandsons of our sons the scene would have changed, the glacier perhaps melted into a thin stream and the mountain itself gone. The book puts the nineteenth-century survey and that prediction against each other.